Keyword: autobiographical

The 8-Year Engagement

7.1

2017

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Twenty-somethings Hisashi and Mai are engaged. When suddenly Mais heart stops and she falls into a coma all Hisashi can do is remain by her side, albeit without knowing whether she might improve. Things look up when Mai finally comes out of the coma and becomes conscious again, but she has suffered brain damage and cannot remember her man.

Endless Poetry

7.6

2016

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Surrealist filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky tells the story of himself as a young man becoming a poet in Chile, befriending other artists, and freeing himself from the limits of his youth.

Dear Diary

7.3

1993

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Director Nanni Moretti takes a mordant look at Italian life through three antological vignettes presented as the chapters of an open diary.

Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming

6.8

2016

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A young Canadian poet with Chinese and Persian parents travels to Iran to perform at a poetry festival.

My Way Home

7.5

1978

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Jamie leaves the childrens home to live with his paternal grandmother. After working in a mine and in a tailors shop, he is conscripted into the RAF, and goes to Egypt, where he is befriended by Robert, whose undemanding companionship releases Jamie from self-pity.

Frank and Cindy

6.1

2015

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G.J. Echternkamp tells the story of his relationship with his parents: his mother Cindy (Russo) and his stepfather Frank (Platt), who used to be a member of OXO, a 1980s band that scored a one-hit wonder with Whirly Girl. Cindy was the ultimate groupie who married Frank thinking life would be all glamour and award shows, but reality turned out differently.

My Childhood

7.4

1972

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The second part (My ain folk) of Bill Douglas influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.

Iron And Silk

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1990

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Mark Salzman always was interested in Kung-Fu and the Chinese culture, claims to have seen every Kung-Fu movie. 1982, with a degree in Chinese literature, he visits a province university in China for two years to teach Chinese teachers the English language. He learns the refinements of correct behavior among Chinese people, makes friends with his pupils, falls in love with the young doctor Ming, learns Wushu (similar Kung-Fu) from the famous teacher Pan... but also learns about political repression, especially when hes forbidden contact with some of his friends.

Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?

5.3

1969

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Heironymus Merkin screens an autobiographical movie of his life, growth and moral decay.

My Ain Folk

7.5

1973

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Jamie and Tommy are separated by the death of their grandmother; Jamie with another relative and Tommy to a welfare home. Now Jamie is all alone and his life is not at all happy taken over by silence, rejection and violence.

Gary Gulman: The Great Depresh

7.6

2019

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Gary Gulman offers candid reflections on his struggles with depression through stand-up and short documentary interludes that provide insight into his mental health journey.